Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)
Ed W8EMV 
APRS map from my #BicycleMobile operations this morning on the Lakelands Trail State Park starting at Stockbridge, MI. This is using #APRSDroid to send spots.
@dgar I'm yet to see a magpie successfully penetrate my skull with this rig … (source: https://www.brisbanewicen.org.au/2018/08/04/y2w/) #AmateurRadio #BicycleMobile #HamOnABike
Bicycle mobile operations on a day off (Juneteenth). Rode the Stockbridge to Gregory (Michigan) section of the Lakelands Trail State Park, with my Openspot 4 and Radioddity GD77 radio tuned to Brandmeister #DMR TG 3126 (Michigan).
QSO with Stan #WB8QJZ who is in the Keweenaw Peninsula, and also a nice conversation with another bicyclist who had also stopped in Gregory about bike trails in Florida.
The trail is very flat - it's an old railroad grade converted to a rail trail.
TA4KHRFinally cycled more than 100m first time for a long time! To the village shop and back which took about 20 minutes, with the FT-65 in the saddlebag scanning. Heard a couple of repeaters announcing but no one on the air.
parking structures on the air (#PSOTA). drive or take the elevator to the top of the ramp, point your antenna far away, see what you can get!
amazing how few milliwatts on an HT you need to hit a 2 meter repeater when it's actually line of sight, even if it's completely unreachable on the same rig from ground level at the same location.
also planning more #BicycleMobile operations, still need to sort out a reasonable battery + antenna + rig for that but I have the bike ready to go.
Looking at doing #APRS #BicycleMobile, through some kind of interface to one of the radios I already own. I have #APRSDroid for my Android phone.
Two options:
A friend from the ARROW club has a rather well used #Mobilinkd Bluetooth #TNC. (It needs a few parts and maybe a repair, but I think I can make it work.)
I see on Amazon and AliExpress an APRS-K1 cable, which would handle getting audio levels right to plug into the audio jack on an Android phone and the K plug for my HT.
( #APRSK1 )
Kicking myself a little bit for not packing my Kenwood TH-22AT HT on this bike trip. I need to sit down with the programming manual and make sure the various channels are set up correctly in it, the user interface was somewhat inscrutable at first go.
I do like the Kenwood for simplex operations, since you can very easily twist a knob to go between channels. In comparison the GD-77 is not frequency agile at all for analog, and doesn't even let you open up the squelch.
Took my bicycle out for a ride on the Border to Border Trail, which heads down Mill Creek from Dexter MI (EN82bi) to the Hudson Mills Metropark (EN82bj), all in Washtenaw County MI.
From the Hudson Mills trail head, my GD-77 HT can hit the N8DUY repeater (EN82cg) and the W8SRC repeater (EN82bj). Barely breaking squelch on the ARROW analog repeater (EN82df), and no signal on the DMR UHF repeater at the ARROW location.
No QSOs while en route, so I don't know how I sounded.
Bike party "Tweed Ride" from Farmers Market to Gallup Park by the Huron River in Ann Arbor. Called a few times on 2m but no one answered. Got some great ideas for a radio trailer for operating #BicycleMobile - he had a marine battery feeding two amps and waterproof marine speakers, fed by a cell phone headphone jack on the handlebars.
Operated APRS-IS through APRSDroid on my bike ride home from downtown #AnnArbor. See the track from W8EMV-9 on aprs.fi
https://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=15&ts=1668816000&te=1668902400&call=a%2FW8EMV-9
The route I took (to avoid Michigan home game football traffic, #goblue ) took 19 minutes, and I got home just before sunset at 510p.
I heard the tail end of a QSO on #Fedihams via my Pi-Star hotspot from about a block away, but it ended before I got a chance to check in.